A Night With Aweng Chuol
I had the pleasure of following around Sudanese model Aweng Chuol on a night out in New York City. Check out the photos below as well as a short interview where she speaks about her favorite fashion cities, the music she’s listening to and more. All photos mine.
Jacques Morel: Hey Aweng how are you?
Aweng Chuol: Hi! I’m good, how are you doing?
JM: We’re currently in an Uber on the way to a Self Portrait dinner on Halloween...how have you celebrated Halloween in the past?
AC: I haven’t actually, this is my first halloween.
JM: This is your first halloween?!
AC: Yea! I don’t be celebrating halloween. Everytime Halloween comes around I think I’m working all the time.
JM: No way! You haven’t dressed up?
AC: I’ve never dressed up.
JM: What!
AC: This is the most I feel like I’ve dressed up. This year I was going to go as Storm actually but then I didn’t have time to go to LA, I was shooting and I was like, let me just pull something together tonight.
JM: Well, you look fantastic tonight. Speaking of your outfit, who are you wearing for halloween?
AC: I’m wearing Self Portrait. Fully. Head to toe. Feather dress, heels and a cute, cute bag.
JM: What are you listening to nowadays? I know we spoke about Lil Baby earlier...
AC: Yea, I’m listening to Lil Baby alot. I’m legitimately in my mob wife era. Laughs. I’m listening to a lot of Hip-Hop, I’m listening to a lot of like, rap mainly but like manifestation rap almost? Does that make sense? Rap where it’s like I’m the G.O.A.T and I made this and I’ve done this. My favorite song right now actually is Lil Baby’s song with Drake, “Yes, Indeed.” And [Lil Baby’s] “Freestyle?” Give that boy his credit. That boy can rap.
JM: Wah, wah wah...
AC: Bitch I’m Lil Baby! (Laughter) He said “purr!” When he said “Cartier glasses, I can’t even peek at you?! Yellow Ferrari like Pikachu?!” That’s crazy. His bars are lit.
JM: Speaking about music, we were talking about it earlier, what’s your [Beyoncé’s] ‘Renaissance’ top 5?
AC: Top 5? You’re going to have to give me a top 3. I feel like top 5 is the whole album at that point. Top 3? Renaissance, I love “Heated,” because...”Tiffany on me?!” Bitch...when she said that spandex line!? Yea I’m sorry, love ya.
Um. “Heated,” “Virgo’s Groove” and...I love “America Has A Problem”
JM & AC: mmmmmm!!
AC: Yea we don’t have the time to get into that one! The world has a problem right now, honestly. But America? Yes. Let’s talk about it.
JM: Finally, I wanted to play a fun game with you. Let’s play Fuck, Marry, Kill Fashion City Edition.
AC: Fashion City Edition?! Okay!
JM: New York, Milan and Paris.
AC: Ahhh!! Okay. Milan, New York, Paris. Fuck Marry Kill. Whoa, you gon’ get me in trouble!!
Umm..Kill New York. Is that crazy?! Kill New York because I feel like Fashion Week has become so expeditiously exciting in Europe... because New York is just too far. And I feel like with [New York] Fashion Week we’re all just dragging ourselves to the other side to do it. So yea, let’s kill New York.
Let’s Fuck Milan.
JM: Mm...wait, wait, what is it about Milan that makes you want to have sex with it?
AC: Milan is a sensual city...that’s where fashion is legitimately. I feel like it’s smooth...everyone in trenches...everyone really drags it out and then Paris ends with a pop of color.
So I feel like Milan? I’m gonna fuck her. She’s like, “You comin?” You’re like “Ite.” [She’s like] “It’s going to be like 3 - 4 days... we might do Versace...” She’s like a “we been to Powerhouse because we rule the 90s” kinda style. [Milan] gives me that. For me it’s like, I gotta sleep with [Milan] I gotta fornicate with you at least once.
And then Marry Paris because it’s Paris. And it’s the city of love. And she gives sensuality and sultry and she gives being about the business because almost everything was made here anyways in regards to fashion. And kinda ‘cause Chanel was from there. The French know how to get down.
So let’s kill New York, let’s Fuck Milan and let’s marry Paris.
JM: Thank you!
AC: No problem! Laughs
